By and by...

I got my expander off today and I couldn't be happier, though my mouth was bleeding a lot when they took it off...I had to rise my mouth out twice with freezing cold water before they could do anything else. Now i have my top braces on (but not the bottom because I would bite right through them), and I remembered why I was so happy when i got them off five years ago. I hate braces and now I have to wear them for a second time...gah!

I started The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn today and it's really not as bad as everyone was telling me it would be. I'm on Chapter Ten right now. Huck as said the phrase 'by and by' more times than i care to count and I think that's the only thing that kind of annoys me so far. When i first flipped through the book and saw that there was tons of southern 'talking' in it I groaned, but now that I'm reading it I've found that I sometimes talk like Huck does, not to his southern extent of course, but bits and peaces sound like me. I have to read Jim's words slowly, because it's kind of hard to grasp what he's saying if you rush through it. Huck's dad is an ass. All in all, not bad at all, I might even enjoy this story :)